Table 3.
Main demographic and clinical characteristics affecting the duration of mechanical ventilation
| Variables | Duration of MV (days) Mean ± SD |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (Year) | <= 5 Y | 22.24 ± 4.89 | Mann-Whitney U test 0.796 |
| > =6 Y | 16.29 ± 6.82 | ||
| Gender | Male | 17.80 ± 5.56 | Mann-Whitney U test 0.235 |
| Female | 24.15 ± 5.85 | ||
| Season | Spring | 25.50 ± 12.50 | Kruskal Wallis test 0.075 |
| Summer | 7.75 ± 3.32 | ||
| Fall | 34.43 ± 11.76 | ||
| Winter | 20.64 ± 5.00 | ||
| preillness | AURI | 20.47 ± 5.42 | Kruskal Wallis test 0.225 |
| GE | 7.50 ± 3.20 | ||
| Other | 34.00 ± 4.00 | ||
| None | 25.14 ± 10.56 | ||
| Sensory | No | 18.11 ± 4.57 | Mann-Whitney U test 0.408 |
| Yes | 25.50 ± 7.79 | ||
| Autonomic Involvement | No | 20.50 ± 5.67 | Mann-Whitney U test 0.667 |
| Yes | 21.00 ± 5.90 | ||
| Cranial Involvement | No | 8.40 ± 2.87 | Mann-Whitney U test 0.173 |
| Yes | 23.43 ± 4.68 | ||
| Electrophysiological pattern | Normal | - | Kruskal Wallis test 0.023* |
| Nonspecific | - | ||
| AIDP | 8.22 ± 2.51 | ||
| Axonal | 26.68 ± 5.31 | ||
| CMAP Amplitude | Normal | - | Kruskal Wallis test 0.331 |
| Low | 16.44 ± 6.00 | ||
| Absent | 29.00 ± 9.57 | ||
* Level of significance is considered to be <0.05.